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Military Leaders and Sacred Space in Classical Greek Warfare - Temples, Sanctuaries and Conflict in Antiquity

Inglese · Copertina rigida

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The ancient Greeks attributed great importance to the sacred during war and campaigning, as demonstrated from their earliest texts. Among the first four lines of the Iliad, for example, is a declaration that Apollo began the feud between Achilles and Agamemnon and sent a plague upon the Greek army because its leader, Agamemnon, had mistreated Apollo's priest. In this first in-depth study of the attitude of military commanders towards holy ground, Sonya Nevin addresses the customs and conduct of these leaders in relation to sanctuaries, precincts, shrines, temples and sacral objects. Focusing on a variety of Greek kings and captains, the author shows how military leaders were expected to react to the sacred sites of their foes. She further explores how they were likely to respond, and how their responses shaped the way such generals were viewed by their communities, by their troops, by their enemies and also by those like Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon who were writing their lives. This is a groundbreaking study of the significance of the sacred in warfare and the wider culture of antiquity."

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Sonya Nevin is an Affiliated Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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Autori Sonya Nevin
Editore Tauris, I.B.
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Copertina rigida
Pubblicazione 10.11.2016
 
EAN 9781784532857
ISBN 978-1-78453-285-7
Pagine 320
Dimensioni 138 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
Serie Library of Classical Studies
Library of Classical Studies
Categorie Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Antichità

Militärgeschichte, Christi Geburt bis 1500 nach Chr., Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Altes Griechenland, Vorzeit, Frühgeschichte vor Christi Geburt

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